Louise Wilder Quotes

#1. Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration ... in the very teeth of winter.

Louise Wilder

#2. To the landscape architect a rock garden ... appears ... the work of a lunatic.

Louise Wilder

#3. A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

Louise Wilder

#4. In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

Louise Wilder

#5. While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.

Louise Wilder

#6. In one's garden a person may be one's own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the romance of possibility.

Louise Wilder

#7. The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

Louise Wilder

#8. He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

Louise Wilder